Members of the cast and crew of 'Girls' pose with an award as they arrive at the HBO Golden Globe After Party at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Jan. 13.

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Berneta Haynes
| Guest Opinion

Lena Dunham's "Girls" is wrapping up its second season on HBO this month, still being criticized for the whiteness of its otherwise-multicultural New York City setting. The criticism reached the point this season where even basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar expressed his disapproval in a piece published in the Huffington Post.

Despite calls to diversity the cast, however, I don't believe minorities should be sprinkled into a show indiscriminately just to add color, edge, or to avoid accusations of whitewashing. Some predominately-white shows have done this, and their non-white ...